Mildura

Two days in Mildura, a Victoria/NSW border town, for a local conference at the Rural Clinical School. I learnt lots about the arrangements for health science undergraduates to gain clinical experience in rural and remote communities and the interprofessional education initiatives in many sites outside Victoria’s metropolitan areas. Dinner on Friday evening was at a art gallery restaurant with an exhibition on The Road.
Mildura is an hour’s flying time from Melbourne, it produces pink salt and once had lots of orange groves. Many of these have been replaced by vineyards -oranges are now imported. The weather was kind, sunny days and warm evenings: it reaches 40C during the summer months so autumn is the time to be there.

The Mildura Hotel has very spacious rooms, mine included a sitting room with a jacuzzi bath in the corner! The lift was an interesting feature, encased in a wooden box you pressed button 3 for floor 2 and incomplete doors. We decided it was best avoided.
I’m now back at the Marriot in Melbourne for two nights & looking forward to seeing more of the city: meanwhile I'm off to see Jersey Boys.